There’s no rhyme or reason why we shouldn’t be able to quote a few lines of uplifting verse when the mood or occasion inspires us. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, ...

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SINGAPORE: Have you spotted poetry splashed across the train during your morning commute? More than a hundred poems by Singapore writers are now featured on some SMRT trains and stations on the Circle ...

The last time I committed a poem to memory was when, still in my teens, I fell in love with Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark. Before that, at school, we were required to learn poems by heart. Often ...

What a piece of work is Gyles Brandreth, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, and how like an irrepressible Butlin’s Redcoat or jolly tambourine-banging clergyman, insisting that we ...

Speaking to broadcaster Gyles Brandreth and actress Dame Joanna Lumley at Clarence House for the Commonwealth Poetry Podcast, she described childhood memories of reading with her father, Major Bruce ...

The Formula One driver Jochen Mass pursued a career of extreme jeopardy. But the detail that caught my eye in his Telegraph obituary was his ability to quote poetry from memory: “a trick he had ...

On Poetry Day Ireland, Dermot Bolger looks at how the poems we learn as children can stay with us throughout our lives and shape who we become Signposts to life: Dermot Bolger says Patrick Kavanagh’s ...

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